I went back to school when I was in my early thirties. We don't have High Schools in the UK and we don't have an equivalent to the High School Diploma but I left formal education when I was 17 (I had stayed on for a year) with a clutch of not particularly impressive qualifications in my hand and a thoroughgoing revulsion for the School System deep in my gut. I'd had enough and wanted out. Unfortunately I left just in time to be caught up in a massive recession. This was 1977 and the events th...
Communism, as everyone knows, is dead. Except in Cuba and certain parts of Latin America. And if it isn't dead in those parts of the world it certainly ought to be - because, as everyone also knows, Communism is a delusion on a par with the contention that the earth is actually flat. Communism as practiced in the old Soviet Union was not the Communism theorized by Marx. 'Communism' in the Soviet Union was simply centralized control over the economy, bound up with the cult of the personalit...
I hate work. I hate it with a passion. Like the title says, the only thing I hate more is unemployment. It's a European thing generally, but it's also and particularly an English thing. One of the most alien (to me) attitudes I've encountered since arriving here is the American attitude to work. Any good working-class Englishman (which is what I am at the marrow - working-class and proud of it) will tell you that employers per se are the enemy of the worker. In part this attitude has ...
Let me make something plain to you all. Since coming to America my experience here has taught me that Racism is justified. I was at one time a European, and in this context that means that I believed that there was absolutely no basis for racial prejudice. I grew up in Great Britain, one of the most ethnically diverse nations on Earth. The Blacks that I knew, all of whom came from Jamaica, the West Indies (a great cricketing Nation), and Africa, all thought of themselves as British before ...
Psalm 139 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful...
Link Perhaps our newborn Super-Liberal-Man (aka Lucas) would care to exert his Super-liberal-Man powers against Adolf's Children, rather than indulging in wishful thinking about what should have, might have, could have happened in the past. What would they make of him? Short work. But here's his chance to show us his Super-Liberal-Man Megabrain at work. He can tell us how we can go about reforming them before they become a problem. The 15% involved in the article are thos...
Yesterday I watched the movie 'Hard Candy'. It's a revenge flick, in which our heroine settles accounts with a suspected child murderer - so far, so contemporary. It even has a happy ending, of sorts, in which today's version of natural justice is amply served. Our heroine is 14. And the needs of this natural justice are met by her castration of the only other major character in the movie. The castration involved is (in the world of the movie, of course) literal and actual. Our heroine fir...
Political fiction covers everything from imagined Utopias and Dystopias, to satire like Swift's suggestion that the famine-struck Irish should eat their children, to Apocalyptic visions like the manifesto of the Communist Party. They all conjure worlds which aren't yet but which are based in what is, and which might come to be. What follows was not written by me. It's a dystopic view of the remainder of this century and its value is not in the writing itself, or in its attempt to portray...
Is it simple coincidence that Hollywood in recent years has seen the making of a series of movies that deal with the historical and mythic origins of ancient Europe? First we had 'Troy'. Then 'Alexander'. Then 'Kingdom of Heaven'. And now '300', dealing with the battle of the Spartans under Leonidas against the Persian Empire under Xerxes (if I remember my ancient history correctly). Granted, 'Kingdom of Heaven' deals with the Crusades - but the Crusades, taken as a whole, represent a seminal...
Surfing The Guardian (the English newspaper, not the movie) I found this article, published October fourth (so thirteen days ago at time of writing). Link A philosopher had entered his third week in hiding (at time of publication) due to death threats he received in consequence of writing a comment piece for Le Figaro on September 19. This comment referred to Muhammad, and what the philosopher said was this: that Muhammad was "a merciless warlord, a looter, a mass-murderer of Jews and a ...
Yesterday a 17 year old girl in a wrinkled white skirt told me I was too smart to do the job that another office-bimbo-emptyheaded little Fothermucker had contacted me about at the weekend, gooing syrupy nonsense about an 'interview' Monday (yesterday) and being 'placed' by Wednesday (tomorrow). Despite my firm intention not to allow my hopes to be raised by these parasites (the contract I would have signed was not with the company wanting a CAD operator - CircuitCity - but with the staffin...
Pakistan. That detestable, debauched, disgusting agglommeration of subhuman filth has, once again, legalized rape. I have no interest in Pakistan or Pakistanis beyond their immediate incineration through nuclear fire. They are among the most degenerate, disgusting, corrupt, vile, and abominable of all those creatures that pass for human in these lazy, lackadaisical times. I knew them in Britain and was revolted by them. And now they have provided evidence that my revulsion was entirely jus...
Yesterday I spent a large part of the afternoon working on an article titled 'The Pope, the Muslims, and the Eurodweebs'. JU devoured almost all of it as I attempted to edit it from the forum 'Tools' tab - something I don't recommend anyone else to do. This is not a rant about the shortcomings of JU. I mention it to explain why the truncated remains of that article are still available on my blog (it looks messy and I'd delete it if I could but I seem no longer to have access to that function...
I'm still waiting for the rough beast that ragged monster to slouch it's way to the moment when others will say what's this that's come to us? It's in me this raggedy thing that hides its teeth behind a quiet smile and every rock that causes me to stumble is just one more rock - fit only to sharpen the claws I drag behind my raggedy self. Somewhere up ahead there's a sunrise and a day of bloody rags and tatters. If I ever had an inner child my inner sadist tortured raped and mu...